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Springbank Honey forced to burn thousands of beehives
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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 13348" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I may be wrong in this but my understanding is that only hives with clinical AFB must be destroyed under the AFB PMP but the agency is also using the bio security act to order the destruction of used beekeeping equipment with a very high chance of being infected. This has caused some concerns in the past and while I don't know every situation , as far as I can see it has only been applied when a beekeeper has a massive problem and has just not been doing the job properly. If you continually take off honey without properly checking for AFB over a number of years then you can expect to be in this position. If you pick up a few AFB from an incompetent neighbour and then find and burn it including all affected gear then you do have a loss but it will not progress to the point where you are targeted for destruction.</p><p>The enforcement of AFB regulations is not to punish the affected beekeeper but to protect neighbouring beekeepers put at risk by other people's poor practices. I have yet to read all the articles on this one but I heard one comment made by the beekeeper saying why can't we use vaccination like the rest of the world.</p><p>Well, for one there is no effective vaccination for AFB. It is being looked at but to the best of my knowledge has not been achieved.</p><p>As for using antibiotics, that is a proven method of temporarily controlling AFB while spreading the spores throughout your apiaries so that you have to treat 100% of the hives And now they are getting antibiotic resistance showing up.</p><p>I would be the 1st to call out the management agency if I thought they were acting unfairly and if people can show me this is the case then I would not rest until justice has been done but I have yet to see any evidence ever except for inexperience, gross incompetence or bloody-minded ignorance when it comes to an AFB outbreak. Inexperience is fortunately the most common cause and whith effort can be remedied but the other two lead inevitably to the final resort of a match.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 13348, member: 207"] I may be wrong in this but my understanding is that only hives with clinical AFB must be destroyed under the AFB PMP but the agency is also using the bio security act to order the destruction of used beekeeping equipment with a very high chance of being infected. This has caused some concerns in the past and while I don't know every situation , as far as I can see it has only been applied when a beekeeper has a massive problem and has just not been doing the job properly. If you continually take off honey without properly checking for AFB over a number of years then you can expect to be in this position. If you pick up a few AFB from an incompetent neighbour and then find and burn it including all affected gear then you do have a loss but it will not progress to the point where you are targeted for destruction. The enforcement of AFB regulations is not to punish the affected beekeeper but to protect neighbouring beekeepers put at risk by other people's poor practices. I have yet to read all the articles on this one but I heard one comment made by the beekeeper saying why can't we use vaccination like the rest of the world. Well, for one there is no effective vaccination for AFB. It is being looked at but to the best of my knowledge has not been achieved. As for using antibiotics, that is a proven method of temporarily controlling AFB while spreading the spores throughout your apiaries so that you have to treat 100% of the hives And now they are getting antibiotic resistance showing up. I would be the 1st to call out the management agency if I thought they were acting unfairly and if people can show me this is the case then I would not rest until justice has been done but I have yet to see any evidence ever except for inexperience, gross incompetence or bloody-minded ignorance when it comes to an AFB outbreak. Inexperience is fortunately the most common cause and whith effort can be remedied but the other two lead inevitably to the final resort of a match. [/QUOTE]
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